Promise Holmes Skinner

Promise Holmes Skinner represents a diverse group of clients with unwavering commitment.  She has appeared at all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada and Ontario Court of Appeal.  She assists clients with a wide range of criminal and quasi-criminal offences.  She also represents clients on issues of police misconduct and assists clients in conflict with individuals and institutions.  She works on various high-profile matters and shares the value her clients place on their privacy. 

Promise graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, articled at Greenspan Humphrey Weinstein and served as a senior manager at Aboriginal Legal Services before opening her own law firm.  

In addition to managing her thriving practice, Promise is an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of Toronto, an Instructor at Osgoode Hall Law School and regularly lectures across Canada on criminal law and restorative justice, including at the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators, the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, The Advocates’ Society, and the Assembly of First Nations.  She has also lectured internationally in California and New Zealand.